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OSOILLATING WATER METER.

No. 318,926. Patented May 26,1885.

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OSGILLATING WATER METER.

Patented May 26, 1885.

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OSClLLATING WATER=METER.

SBECZFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,926, dated hiay 26, 1885.

' Application filed March 3, 1585. (No model.) Patented in Spain June 3, 1881, No. 4,256. v

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PIZAOIDO TARDA PUIG, a subject of the King of Spain, residing at Barcelona, Spain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater hleters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, in which Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of the water-meter, taken through the axis of the measuring-cylinder, and showing it in one of its lowest positions. Fig. 2- is a cross-section of the water-meter, taken through the middle of the measuring-cylinder and show ing it at its horizontal position in the meter. Fig. 3 is a frontview of the register.

This invention relates to water-meters provided with an oscillating cylinder; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

F is a castiron box, made flat at the bottom and sides and cylindrical at the top and ends. The open side of it is provided with a flange, and with a cover, 3 fastened to the said flange by bolts m.

Jisa small box, secured upon the cover, and containing a train of wheels combined with revolving hands and index-plates for registerin g the quantity of water which passes through the meter. this registering apparatus does not form a part of this invention, as it does not materially differ from those ordinarily used on meters.

A is the pipe through which the water enters the meter. This pipe is connected to the box F by means of the couplingnuts n and a screwed stem projecting from the said box. This screwed stem is provided with a flange, 0, inside the box, which is drawn up tight against a rubber washer.

B is a four-way cock.f0r distributing the water in the interior of the meter. 1 is a flexible rubber pipe, which connects the nozzle of the screwed stem with a nozzle on the said cock.

The particular construction of r C is the oscillating cylinder, provided with pivots E, journaled in the blocks 1) and b which are attached to the-inside of the box F. The four-way cock B oscillates with the cylinder, but is situated below the pivots E, and is connected to the ends of the said cylinder by within the cylinder 0 by the pressure of the water. This piston may be made hollow for lightness, if required.

G is a rubber packing-ring for keeping the piston water-tight.

Pins 0 are provided in the ends of cylinder C,which work through suitable stuffing-boxes,

- d, and are provided with heads 0, terminating in points 6, which work between two guidestrips, 9, extending outward from the pipes A and A, and which prevent the said heads from turning round.

Two hollow bosses, f, are provided in connection with the heads 0. These bosses are in the form of a hollow rectangle, projecting from the ends of box F, with an opening in that side of them which faces the cylinder, the use of which will be more fully explained hereinafter.

Two ratios, as and as, project from pipes A and A, respectively. These arms are covered with rubber, and strike against the rub ber-covered boss j, projecting from the bottom of box F at the extremity of each oscillation of the cylinder. The use of the r Th s coverings is to deaden the shock or jar which would otherwise take place. Two bosses, :2, project from the box F. Then one end of the cylinder rises, the head 0 strikes against one of these, so that the pin a is pushed inward into the cylinder.

A pin, h, projects from one of the pivots E, upon which the cylinder oscillates, and passes through a stuffing-box and into thebox J. A small arm, h, is fastened upon the end ICO of the pin h, inside bOX J, whichoperates in connection with the teeth of the first wheel of the recording mechanism inside'the said box, and works the revolving hands. The arm h is so adjusted that it moves the first wheel through the space of one tooth when one of the ends of cylinder 0 rises, andwhen the same end. descends it passes through the wheel without. turning it back again. To effect this, the teeth of the first wheel are made slanting, and the arm h is made with a hinge in it, and provided with a little spring to keep it in place.

H is the delivcrypipe, through which the water passes out of the meter.

The operation of the mechanism is as follows: \Vhen the moving parts are in, the position shown in Fig. 1, water enters the meter through the pipe A, passes up the flexible pipe P, through the four-way cock B, up the pipe A, through the hole a, and intothe cylinder 0. The pressure of this water forces the pis= ton to travel to the other end of the cylinder. When the piston has passedover the axis on which the cylinder is pivoted,the weighto'f it causes the end of the cylinder toward which it is moving to be depressed until the point e of pin 0 at that end of it rests upon the edge of the hollow bossf beneath it. The cylinder is held in this position until the piston arrives at the end of its stroke, when it strikes the pin 0 and pushes it out,so that thepoint 6 enters the hollow central portionof boss f, and, passing completely through it,' followed by the head 0, allows the cylinder to oscillatenntil the arm 00 strikes against the boss The oscillation of the cylinder also brings the arm h, which projects from the plug B. of. .the four-way cock, against the boss m.. This holds the said plug stationary. (The continued movement of the cylinder then moves the cock about the plug, so that the pipeA is brought into communication with the pipe A, which is connected to the opposite end of the" cylinder, and the motion of the piston is' reversed.

Vhile the pipe A was in communication with the pipe A, the other end.- of the cylinder was in communication with the outlet pipe H by means of the pipe A and the other passages in the four-way cock. Each oscillation of the cylinder is registered on .the index; plates by the revolving hands, which" are operatedv by the pin h, projecting from the pivot E, and the arm h secured upon it, as hereinbefore' described.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a water-meter, the combination of an oscillating cylinder, a piston sliding back'and forth within it, a four-way cock for controlling the admission and discharge of water to and from the said cylinder, and pivots situated be tween the said cylinder and four-way cock, so that they move in opposite directions about the said pivots as a center during each oscillation, substantially as described and shown,

I and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a water-meter, the combination ofan oscillating cylinder, a piston sliding back and forth within it, a four-way cock for controlling the admission and discharge of water, the arms h and h, secured to the plug of the said fourway cock, and the boss m, for reversing its movement, substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a water-meter, the combination of the cylinder 0, oscillating upon pivots E,the piston D, the pipes A and A, the four-way cock B,v having plug 13 provided with arms h and h, boss m for operating said arms, the rubber-- covered arms at and x, and the rubber-covered boss j,for arresting the motion ofthesaidcylinder,substantially as described and shown, and

for the purpose set forth. y

at. In a water-meter, the combination of the oscillating cylinder 0, the piston D, the strikerpin 0, provided with a head, 0, having a point, .6, the guides g, which prevent said pin-head from turning, and the hollow boss f, attached to the side of the casingbox F, substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.

5. Ina water-meter, the combination of the oscillating cylinder 0, the piston -D, the

striker-pin 0, provided with ahead, 0, having .a point, e, the guides g, the hollow boss'f, and

the boss 2, for forcing inward the said pin when the end of the cylinder which carries it is raised, substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth. I

The foregoing specification of my improvement in a water-meter named Gardas system, signed by me this 15th day of December, 1 884'.

rLAcrDo TARDA Pore.-

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J UAN TOLIBA, J AMES OAsrnLLo. 

